Can total cardiac calcium predict the coronary calcium score?

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 202-206

  Pressman, Gregg S ^a   Crudu, Vitalie ^a   Parameswaran Chandrika, Anoop ^a   Romero Corral, Abel ^a,b   Purushottam, Bhaskar ^a   Figueredo, Vincent M ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac calcification; Coronary artery calcium; MAC

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AORTA ROOT; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE CALCIFICATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78651467850     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2009.06.057     Document Type: Article

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